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So this is awesome -- mini-project

The lovely people at F11 Photography have given us a large box of disposable camera shells. It turns out the circuits inside of disposable camera shells are ideal for creating the high-voltage, low-current power required to build awesome Steampunk lights guaranteed to amaze your friends and enrage your enemies.

So while we're planning for our larger awesome projects, I'd like to do a mini-project on one of our upcoming Open Make Days. The generous, wonderful, and perennially excellent F11 supplies the circuits, I'll supply bulbs, switches, and (if I can get enough together) battery cases, and we'll use the time to get a basic circuit together. After that, it's up to you! We have a lot of creative people in the group, and I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with. Who's with me?

So it appears that I have modified the circuit and found multiple outputs that are reading around 450-480 volts. Which output should I use? The bulb only on rare instances lights up for a second or two and then no more. Any thoughts as to why this might be happening?